DIVISION THREE — BRAINS. 175 



LOT NO. PURCHASER. PRICE PER FT. TOTAL. 



6 — M. Fish 80 00 $2,000 00 



7 — M. Fish 70 00 1.750 00 



8 — ^J. Hisey 66 00 1,650 00 



9 — D. Parker 55 00 i,375 00 



10 — Adam Becker 51 00 1,275 00 



II — C. A. Gardner 51 50 1,287 50 



1 2 — W . W. Mills 50 00 1 , 250 00 



13 — W. G. McCaldin 4900 1,225 00 



14 — ^J. W. Vandevort 50 00... 1,250 00 



15 — ^J. G. Miller 50 00 1,250 00 



i6— J. G. Miller 61 50 1,537 50 



17 — ^J. G. Miller 67 00 1,675 00 



18 — E. C. Webster 55 00 i,375 00 



19 — S.Washburn 50 00 1,250 00 



20 — Fred Swift 44 00 1,100 00 



21 — C. A. Steele 43 00 1,075 00 



22 — C. A. Steele 37 00 937 00 



23 — E. C. Webster 33 00 825 00 



24— E. C. Webster 26 00 650 00 



25 — A. Tower 2450 612 50 



26 — A. Tower 24 50 612 50 



27 — A. Tower 24 50 612 50 



28 — A. Tower 2450 612 50 



29 — Edwin Waid 25 00 625 00 



30— Tom Hoag 61 50 i,537 50 



31 — Tom Hoag 46 50 1,162 50 



32 — Tom Hoag 45 00 1,125 00 



33 } Reserved for Town Hall purposes, and the 



34 \ school-house was moved onto them. 



35 — Free Eibrary (by Abbot Kinney, presi- 

 dent ; this was where the original Eibrary 



building then stood) 170 00 



Total $44,772 00 



This was a great historic day in our school history. Among these lots 

 was the entire frontage on the south side of Colorado street from Fair Oaks 

 to the Santa Fe railroad, and on both sides of Raymond Avenue as far 

 south as the north line of the present postoffice building — lots where some 

 of the best business blocks of the city now stand. 



The school trustees at this time were H. W. Magee, A. O. Bristol and 

 S. Washburn, with E. T. Pierce as school principal and superintendent and 

 clerk of the board ; and these changes of school site, choice of new grounds, 

 planning for new buildings, etc., imposed an immense amount of labor and 

 care upon them. In a few weeks they called for competitive plans and 

 specifications for the new Wils'on school building. Nine different architects 

 sent in plans under fictitious names, with their real names in sealed en- 

 velopes. These different plans were all exposed for public inspection and 

 opinion two days (May 4-5, 1886) in a large vacant room over the Valley 



